Making the ‘Ella’ video

When we released the Ella video last week, I asked Nicky Cairney, the talented artist (and musician on RTFM Records) who directed and animated the video, if she wanted to say a few words about her experience and the process of making the video.  She sent me this really lovely description which merited its own [...] Read More

Rapture

Was given this for free by the lovely flower man at Whole Foods a couple days after our Orange Room show. Glowy days. It feels lately like the world is exploding blossoms all around me. I know these waves cycle around and around, but I spend enough time swimming through peanut [...] Read More

2012 is LIVE!!

Daniel Berkman and Steve Lawson, photo by Artemis

Daniel Berkman and Steve Lawson, photo by Artemis Wow, this year is off to quite a start. So many juicy good things going on to tell, but let’s start with a little stroll through an event I put together last week, with the help of my interstellar supersonic friends. A couple [...] Read More

truth is a beautiful child

but not an easy one.  she’s late.  she’s heavy.  she comes out kicking and screaming, sideways with a big head, ripping and tearing all the way.  but her eyes are bright.  brighter than the closest star in the sky.  she’s impatient.  when she doesn’t get her way, she stomps around the room, arms folded, steam [...] Read More

happy birthday

i love birthdays! this one is super sweet, as it seems like the ethers are lately overflowing with sparkly synchronicities, new connections, old connections renewed, delightful surprises and unexpected artsy geniuses meandering through the door to say hello let’s play… one such delightful surprise is Sara Abtahi, an Iranian artist in Germany who is working [...] Read More

it’s not…

that i haven’t been thinking of you.  i think of you nearly every day, in fact.  it’s just that i’m slightly organizationally challenged of late.  okay, maybe in general.  or at least sporadically.  i’d blame it on the stars, but i like stars.  it’s not that i don’t have anything to say to you either…it’s [...] Read More

new video from WomensRadio featuring artemis remix from Orbits

new video describing the great community building and services for women provided by WomensRadio.com – music is from the Artemis Orbits album: Charming Gun – The Charmed Mix by Eric Hawk and Bo Blount Read More

Rehearsal #1

hip hip hooray, we’re officially making noise…getting ready for the CD release party at Harlot on March 25 with RTFM Records, Groovera and WomensRadio – as well as our show at Swig on April 1 with Below Zero Beats…happy hours are so nice, we prefer to throw them twice… so…tonite we had our first real [...] Read More

birthdays n bliss

happy belated valentines day!  and happy belated birthday to the Auralei EP!  as you may have noticed, it’s been a bit of a prolonged birth process…she’s been up on the bandcamp site for a couple weeks now (though you’ll notice we’ve now switched the artwork to the lovely version created by AM Radio, which we’ve [...] Read More

rabbit rabbit

this image is by Android Jones – i’m utterly awed and inspired by his stunning and shamanic digital art… happy february!  lots of excitement this last couple weeks…we won first place / top score at the latest Test Press listening event at Pyramind for Colfax’s remix of Here and Now, off the new Auralei EP [...] Read More